A centred, elongated "ferric tetrahedron" with an S= 15/2 spin ground state

James Tabernor; Leigh F Jones; Sarah L Heath; Chris Muryn; Guillem Aromi; Joan Ribas; Euan K Brechin; David Collison

doi:10.1039/b403041a

A centred, elongated "ferric tetrahedron" with an S= 15/2 spin ground state

Dalton Trans. 2004 Apr 7:(7):975-6. doi: 10.1039/b403041a. Epub 2004 Mar 4.

Authors

James Tabernor¹, Leigh F Jones, Sarah L Heath, Chris Muryn, Guillem Aromi, Joan Ribas, Euan K Brechin, David Collison

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. euan.k.brechin@man.ac.uk

PMID: 15252673
DOI: 10.1039/b403041a

Abstract

The reaction of anhydrous FeCl(3) with 1H-benzotriazole-1-methanol (Bta-CH(2)OH) in MeOH produces the pentanuclear complex [Fe(5)O(2)(OMe)(2)(Bta)(4)(BtaH)(MeOH)(5)Cl(5)], containing a distorted tetrahedron of four Fe ions centred on a fifth. The central Fe is antiferromagnetically coupled to the peripheral Fe ions resulting in an S= 15/2 spin ground state.